UPDATED : Daily Gotham under spam attack
[UPDATE by Liza Sabater : 6 October 2006]
Comments are back on.
Given the severity of the attacks (I deleted yesterday close to 5k spam comments) I may be forced to allow comments from registered users only. This does not mean you have to out yourself if you are an anonymous blogger or commenter --did you hear that Gatemouth?
It means you need to have a valid email address to fill out our registration form. That's it. Nothing more.
So to those who have not registered with us, I would strongly suggest you do so today.
To those who don't want to, could you please tell me WHY!?!
[5 October 2006]
This site is currently under attack by porn-pushing spambots; the above is a screenshot of my inbox (you get an alert email every time someone posts a comment on a thread you authored or commented on).
And just for the record, I don't like "amatuer porn". Doesn't do it for me.
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Sue Kelly, Foley, Veterans and Spam ...
Submitted by therogue on 5 October 2006 - 11:08pm.
Have you tried Akismet for spam?
Anyway, looks like Sue Kelly is toast and will shortly be receiving a subpoena to answer questions about her stint running the House Page program.
In the meantime, I'd like to share this:
How Sue Kelly treats Disabled Iraqi Vets
You have a cool looking site BTW.
Can you update your post?
I was going to make a separate entry but I think we should use this one to discuss what's the benefit of allowing anonymous commenters.
We are reaching a breaking point right now. Spammers found a security hole and I can't patch this until later tonight or tomorrow. Which means, I had to disable open comments and now have them go to a queue.
For people like Gatemouth, I'd like to know why is it they're not joining The Daily Gotham given they comment quite a lot here. Because, seriously, we can't have comments or trackbacks open anymore. The minute security holes are patched the minute spammers will find --or create-- another breach.